This book is a collection of writings penned by Bruce Lee. I wasn't as jazzed on this as I thought I might be but there were still some gems to be fouThis book is a collection of writings penned by Bruce Lee. I wasn't as jazzed on this as I thought I might be but there were still some gems to be found in this book. One problem is a good portion of this book was the same essay several times over in a revised version. There was also a lot of stuff like term papers Bruce Lee wrote when he was a philosophy major in college and some poetry he had written so its not all martial arts stuff. Overall it was interesting if your interested in Bruce Lee or martial arts but still somewhat of a disappointment. ...more

I think the main point of this book that Wyatt wanted to make was Odinism begins with your family, friends and local kindreds. Not national organizatiI think the main point of this book that Wyatt wanted to make was Odinism begins with your family, friends and local kindreds. Not national organizations. Odin is known as the God of many things but what many people seem to overlook is that he is also the God of Fatherhood. The other sides of Odin should not be ignored or forgotten but this is where it begins.

He also pushes the idea of small family owned businesses. The chapter that talked about moral creation of economy was very good. One contributers testimony talked about how his Father worked at a family owned printing plant where the employees were treated very well by the owner, had a Union and were like an extended family. This reminded me of my Grandmother telling me about how during the depression my great Grandfather worked at a place where when the depression hit the owner rationed out hours as best he could, kept people working and while times were tough everybody that worked there managed to get by until times got better because every person from the bottom to the top was willing to make sacrifices. Now of course the top would screw over the workers however they could for short term greed and profit. Which is exactly what happened after the owner of the business the contributer talked abouts original owner died and his kids sold the place to a corporation that immediatly demanded that the Union had to go and the workers had to take paycuts or they would close the place and move operations to Mexico. Which they ended up doing anyway.

I thought some of the family oriented chapters in this book might be some hokey Pat Boonesque detached from reality overly Mormon influenced (Wyatt was raised a Mormon) stuff but most of it is actually pretty good advice on how to be a good parent that morphs into how public schools have both dumbed down and brainwashed people. He also talks about how the main point of having a kid do chores isn't to work them to death or have them do the things that parent is too damn lazy to do themselves. The point is to spend time with them and teach them how to do things.

There are things I disagree with in this book though. Such as "drugs" (plants) don't work for Shamanism. Yes they do, or at least they can. While I agree with what he says about alcohol making stupid people even stupider and your local Kindred is not a drinking club I think he drasticly overstates things in his criticisms of alcohol. The bottom line to me on alcohol is it brings out the worst in some people, it makes some people funner to be around, and while a certain amount of partying is ok, if not healthy, some people don't know when to quit or how to act when indulging.

I would also disagree with some of his theological statements. While I agree that the Eddas and Sagas are not a so called "Heathen Bible" and should be taken with a grain of salt and there is more to Odinism than studying mythology it is bordering on idiotic to downplay them to the degree that he does by stating "I value studying Christianity more than I do the Sagas and Eddas" At this point I would imagine a lot of people ask themselves why not just join a conservative Christian church or revert to old line Mormonism then? This is made even more maddening when he applies to Loki the role of mirroring the Jewish Satan but the thing is Loki is nowhere to be found anywhere but the Eddas! Realisticly the Eddas should be taken with a grain of salt but they are still one of the best sources we have. Snorri was a pretty good guy to be preserving them. He was an enemy of the Christian power establishment and was killed by a goon squad sent by them. Imperfections and Christian influences aside we are damn lucky that the Eddas were preserved.

Criticisms aside overall this is another good effort from Wyatt. He has been around a long time and is willing to think outside the stagnant "Asatru" box so his ideas are to be respected.

This book is a mix of essays from Wyatt Kaldenberg with opinions of other Odinists on the topic being covered thrown in here and there throughout theThis book is a mix of essays from Wyatt Kaldenberg with opinions of other Odinists on the topic being covered thrown in here and there throughout the book. This book is less political in nature than other Kaldenberg books and more on the theological end.

The one chapter that gets political is the "How to Deal with Monotheists" chapter which has several contributers besides Wyatt. Wyatt gives his viewpoints on the subject and also includes opinions on the subject from other Odinists/Asatru people, a few Hindus and strangely enough even a few Christians talk about Heathen relations with Monotheists. Wyatts viewpoints on the matter seems to be to in general give a pass to Jews and Christians but to demonize Muslims. I think some of his justifications are valid but some are not. The contributers thoughts on the issue ranged from in my opinion right on to parroting moronic neo-con drivel. Not surprisingly the most militant bomb the Muslims off the face of the Earth types are nowhere near Iraq, Afghanistan or where ever the latest CIAL-Queda instigated "revolution" is happening and are safely tucked away in their American cubbyholes watching Fox News or whatever. Wyatt to his credit allows many differing viewpoints. To give a quote from the book "Odinism is not some Monotheistic cult where people get punished for disagreeing. If you have 1000 Odinists, not one of them will agree on everything. We are not Muslims. Heathens have freedom of dissent."

I found the chapter the chapter "Extreme Tolerance in the Heathen Community" to be very good and of more people would read this chapter with an open mind a lot of in fighting and problems would be avoided. The gist of the chapter is he thinks odinists should agree to disagree on theological differences and not let personality conflicts go too far because he has seen these things destroy and or hurt hurt Heathen organizations in years past. Tolerating differences prevents a lot of infighting among Heathens and promotes unity among us.

The more Theological chapters were really great. "Why Odin is King of the Gods" and "Odinism and Seperate Realities" were highlights for me. Also his account of how he communicated with the spirit of Giordano Bruno was fascinating stuff.

You also get thrown in as a bonus the 24 Points of the old Heathen Folk Revival and the 24 Oaths of the HFR which is good stuff. There is also an afterward that really gets some digs in to Wiccans. I don't 100% agree with his assessment of Wiccans but is funny as hell to imagine how they will react to what he says about them....more

This book contains some information about Serbian Folk Lore, Folk customs, a little theorizing about pre-Christian religion in Serbia and other SerbiaThis book contains some information about Serbian Folk Lore, Folk customs, a little theorizing about pre-Christian religion in Serbia and other Serbian legends but the bulk of this book is about Prince Marko. It would be very inaccurate to try to say he fits this description exactly but in a sense he is the Serb version of King Arthur. Overall an interesting and entertaining read if this sort of thing interests you....more

In spite of him exhibiting some of the most annoying and hypocritical tendencies of his demographic (Jewish leftist) by doing things like referring toIn spite of him exhibiting some of the most annoying and hypocritical tendencies of his demographic (Jewish leftist) by doing things like referring to residents of a small town in rural New York as "inbred Farmers" and referring to an annual festival there as an "annoying white folks ritual" I think Palasts work is very good at exposing some of the rotten things going on with politicians and corporations.

A good bulk of this book is dedicated to exposing the fraud that "peak oil" and the lie that we are running out of it is and how big oil profits by pushing this scam. Palast also makes a very convincing case that the main push for the war in Iraq came from big oil corporations because they wanted to supress Iraqi oil production because more oil=drop in prices per barrell=less profit for oil companies. Another reason they wanted Saddam out of the picture because he didn't play the oil game as directed. Iraqi oil made the oil market jump up and down according to Husseins whims. Sometimes he would pump up oil production to maximun allowed under the "Oil for Food" program and sometimes he would cut it off. Big oil could not control oil prices with Saddam doing what he was doing. Therefore hundreds of thousands of people are dead now because of a war thats justification was based on lies.

There is also a lot that shows why Venezuelas Hugo Chavez is demonized in the western media. The reasons in a brief summary are he doesn't kow tow to the BPs, Chevrons, Exxons of the world.

Besides that Palast shows how the Republicans stole the 2004 election, (how they stole the 2000 election is in another book written by Palast) by getting votes thrown out and kept from being counted in places that generally speaking people do not vote Republican. Also Armed Madhouse gives several examples how Corporations, "free trade" and Globalism is screwing Americans over and the sneaky way they get laws passed that allow them to do it. Overall this is a very good read that contains information more people need to know. Palast is one of the better investigative journalists out there. ...more

The Occult Laboratory is mostly a collection of old Folk Beliefs/Folk Customs and belief in the supernatural from late 17th century Scotland. I like rThe Occult Laboratory is mostly a collection of old Folk Beliefs/Folk Customs and belief in the supernatural from late 17th century Scotland. I like reading stuff like this because it can be fun and interesting and also because I think you can find lots fragments of and clues as to what pre-Christian European religious beliefs were.

There are some real gems in this but it can get monotonous at times. For example there may be page after page of local Scottish beliefs in omens like if a woman wearing a red dress stumbles while a man is shoeing a black horse this means that his roof will leak in 3 months time. Ok I made that one up but its not much different than many of the ones listed. This book would mainly be of interest to people who really like to study this type of stuff. It might be a little monotonous for people who would read it strictly for its entertainment value. Still a worthwhile read if you have an interest in Folk Lore, Folk Customs or Scottish culture....more

Odinism: Inside the Belly of the Beast is a look at the New World Order from an Odinists perspective. I want to do this review a little bit differentOdinism: Inside the Belly of the Beast is a look at the New World Order from an Odinists perspective. I want to do this review a little bit different than usual and either quote or paraphrase a few choice observations from inside the pages of this book. Most of these are not exact quotes but the meaning of what was said is not altered.

"The left blames white males for all the worlds ills in a witchhunt like manner like the Nazis blamed the Jews but leftists have a disconnect and don't see how similar their anti-white hysteria is to the Nazis anti-Jewish beliefs"

"Less than 1% of southern whites owned slaves but 360,000 whites from the north died in the civil war trying to free them. Whites are demonized because wealthy plantation owners profited from slave labor but whites are never praised for shedding blood trying to free them"

"Everybody knows about the bad things Hitler did but most are clueless about the crimes of Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot and other Communists"

"History is not merely what the system tells you it is, but it is also what they don't tell and why they don't tell you"

"The University eggheads role in the system is to police the intellectual world. The ivory tower scholar enforces what is safe thinking and what is incorrect"

"Universalist Asatru people complain about politics in Heathendom. They are not really against politics in Heathendom. They are merely against politics they don't agree with in Heathendom"

"Universalism always leads to mass murder"

Those are just a few choice statements inside this book. The chapter on how the free enterprise system is destroying the west is really on the mark exposing what a shell game the left vs right charade is and how at the high levels both are joined at the hip. Also a very lengthy but interesting chapter on how the seemingly incompatable Ragnar Redbeard and Leo Tolstoy were both big influences on him.

Wyatt also does a great job of making the case that the God of the Bible was a Demon. Stating at one point that the Bible makes The Turner Diaries look like a handbook of universal brotherhood. Even suggests in a humorous way that people should perform demonic exorcisms on the Bible. Gives examples that are within the Bible of Yahweh ordering people to kill children, often their own and go on genocidal rampages against other tribes. He also makes some very funny comparisons to Yahweh and Hitler. Hitler after all was acting in a similar fashion to Yahweh.

I guess my only criticisms are he beats on the left a bit much for my tastes. While I don't agree with their one size fits all universalism at the barrell of a gun ideology a lot of the ideas coming from the left are good. To be honest I don't know if there is anything coming from the right anymore but total garbage. I think the left gets a few things right at least. I also don't see the Jack London version of Socialism as being bad. Even the Scandinavian version, while far from perfect and in decline, still works better than any system going now. Wyatt likes the idea of Monarchies and family dynasties because of their deeper European roots and if nothing else there is at least a chance that the King will do the right thing.

Other highlights to this book to me were there were a lot of interesting thoughts on Jack London. But overall this was a great book. Recomended not just for Odinists but also for people that like to read alternative viewpoints on politics and the New World Order....more

A good bulk of this is Wyatt points out the differences between Heathens who try to re-create Heathenry using texts that ironicly were mostly writtenA good bulk of this is Wyatt points out the differences between Heathens who try to re-create Heathenry using texts that ironicly were mostly written by Christians and what he calls "Perceived Heathens" who actively seek to communicate with the Gods. He makes a great point when he states that modern Heathenry is the only religion to base its faith on the writings of non-believers. Personally I believe you should not throw the baby out with the bath water. The old texts can and probably should be used as a base but I also believe there has to be room for Odinists to use intuition and inspiration from within or from the Gods themselves. Odinism should not be approached and practiced like its a re-enactment group. Our Gods live within us. They aren't dead so don't treat them as such.

Another topic that takes up a good portion of this book is prayer to the Gods. Both how to pray to them and how not to pray to them. He uses a Christian neighbor who he overhears praying sometimes as an example of how not to pray. This guys begs Yahweh for stuff, doesn't get what he wants, then curses Yahweh. He also uses Wiccans and even some Asatru people as examples citing how one Wiccan group would invoke Goddesses like Freja and Dianna, then disrespectfully try to order them around like they were dogs and of course demand things from them like a spoiled child demanding a toy from their parents. Wyatt makes a good point that not only is this disrespectful you might just piss the Gods off by doing this! When he talks about this stuff I couldn't help but be reminded of an online exchange I had with a former new age kook who was now humping the Atheism trend and I remember this person saying they just couldn't worship any God that didn't give them things. Personally I am not as hard on the Wiccans as Wyatt but no doubt most of these people don't feel Frejas love. They just want to attempt to use her to gain petty materialistic favors. I don't think Freja is listening to them though.

But besides talking about how he thinks people should not pray there are chapters with some very nice prayers to Odin, Frigga, Thor and Heimdall that you can use as a base as well as chapters on runes with runic prayers. You also get transcripts of chats between Wyatt and other Heathens. I disgree with a few things he says, especially about Celtic belief systems being totally lost. The Celtic sources really aren't much worse or unreliable than the Germanic sources. Also I don't see Baldur as a Jesus knock off inserted into the Eddas by Christians. I see Jesus as a made up knock off of Indo-European solar dieties and Balder is obviously a Nordic version of the Indo-European solar diety as well as the death of Baldur story from the Eddas being an obvious allegory for day/night, sunrise/sunset. But the "chat" chapter makes for very interesting thought provoking reading.

Wyatt also has a habit of going off on tangents in his writings. Normally this could be a bad thing but with him you get some interesting stuff. He has been an Odinist since the 1970s so there is a lot of history of the Odinist/Asatru scene and interesting stories along those lines in these pages also. His reflections on the Odinist/Asatru prison ministries is one thing that comes to mind. He is actually the first person to start recruiting people from inside the prisons and he came to the conclusion long ago that its a total dead end, in all but a few cases has been a negative and regrets ever doing it. He gives some first hand accounts as to why he regrets it. Personally I wouldn't turn my back on someone just because they are in prison but I also don't see the logic of going out of your way to recruit from that demographic. But yet for whatever strange reason there are still Odinist/Asatru organizations that still persist in pushing the prison ministry thing.

The last chapter is his thoughts on the use of psychedelic drugs in Odinic shamanism. I have to say I probably disagree with 70% of whats in this chapter. I would agree that Timothy Leary was a creep working for the CIA. Its also undistputable that the CIA was pushing LSD. The biggest LSD seller in the world at one time was a Jew CIA spook named Ronald Starks who was later linked with the CIA false flag terrorism operation in Italy known as Operation Gladio (read Acid: A New Secret History by David Black) and The Brotherhood of Eternal Love who manufactured huge amounts of LSD was probably a CIA front and was certainly infiltrated by them. So I do agree with his conspiratorial viewpoint on the late 60s drug culture. I even have questions about Ken Kesey who had LSD experiments done on him at Stanford by the guy that was later put in charge of the CIAs MKultra mind control program. For that matter I am even highly skeptical of the story of the Swedish chemist Hoffmans alleged accidental LSD ingestion "bike ride" story for that matter. But the thing is the CIA later abandoned the LSD pushing because it had backfired on them because it also made a lot of people think outside the box and question authority even more. I don't think that it was an accident that the hippy scene in its late stages was flooded with hard drugs. The CIA of course later did nice things like smuggle Heroin from southeast Asia into America, create the crack Cocaine epidemic (read Gary Webbs Dark Alliance)and I'm convinced they are bringing Heroin in from Afghanistan in the present day.

I did find what was written about Amerindians using Datura tea in Shamanism to be very interesting. Also while I don't condemn people for using LSD I would also agree with him that its a very dangerous drug to be using. Some, if not most people that do it get a lot out of it but a lot of people who have no business taking it whether they are mentally unstable, uneducated and unprepared for what they are in for or idiots that treat it like a party drug. While (contrary to what Wyatt seems to think) LSD does not cause any actual organic brain damage there are a lot of people that did acid and never quite came back. And just for the record I am personally gainst using chemical non organic psychedelics in Odinic shamanism.

Wyatts stance on using organic psychedelics is while not totally condemning them he strongly discourages their use in Odinic shamanism. Some of his justification is that its not part of the European tradition to use Mushrooms or Marijuana in shamanism but the thing is there is actually a long history of both being used in Indo-European religion. I'd reference people to German named Christian Ratsch who has written extensively on the subject. The Greeks used Cannabis ritually and medicinally. There was a Hemp festival dedicated to Freja in Norway. Hashish traces were found in Halstatt, one of the biggest finds of the ancient Celts. There was even a 5000 year old "blue eyed shaman" found with Cannabis. Just google "oldest Marijuana stash totally busted" to read about it. Also on the Mushrooms there is a long history of the Amanita Muscaria mushroom being used in shamanism in Russia and northern Europe. For that matter don't you think that those victorian era British artists doing paintings of Faeries dancing around mushrooms may have been unwittingly tapping into something in the Jungian sense? Or even now the most common decoration people put on their Yule trees in Scandinavia are Amanita Muscaria mushroom ornaments. There have even been feasable theories put out there by various people including respected scholars like Gordon Wasson that Soma from the Vedas was either Amanita Muscaria mushrooms or Marijuana.

Two other things I don't fully fully jibe well with is while it is true that the Psilocybin mushrooms (not to be confused with the Amanita Muscaria that I have discussed) are not native to Europe I still do not think that that should mean they can't be used by our people for shamanic purposes. Thats almost like saying white people shouldn't eat bananas because they are native to central America. Also I couldn't believe when he said "alcohol is safe" when millions have died from it. I would add that no one in recorded history has ever died from Marijuana or Psilocybin mushrooms and the Amanitas are only dangerous at extremely high doses. My personal advice is if you have to use something use Marijuana which is totally safe, non toxic and the worst thing that may happen to you is you might get a little "paranoid" or weirded out. Then MAYBE later after you have experience if you are educated on them and in the right frame of mind try Psychedelic mushrooms. These things can be used but must be treated with the utmost respect. But Shamanism is a tricky thing and you have to be careful no matter what your methods of "getting there" are. You have to have a strong mind and have a clue as to what your doing or you can end up flirting with insanity. In other words tread lightly.

The last thing I want to mention thats in Pereived Heathenism and Odinic Prayer is Wyatt talks about the deeper esoteric/Odinic meaning of Jack Londons Call of the Wild (also Londons Before Adam and Londons philosophy is discussed) I have said for many years that Call of the Wild is a deep multi-layered book. It makes me happy that other Odinists can see the allegorical meaning of this great book.

But areas of disagreement aside this is a great book and most importantly, while this is not an introductory book for beginners, its the type of book that Heathens need to be reading and writing. ...more

Its not that often that I run across a book by modern practicing Odinists or Asatruers that isn't rehashing things that have already been said ad nausIts not that often that I run across a book by modern practicing Odinists or Asatruers that isn't rehashing things that have already been said ad nauseum elsewhere. Just that this book delves into new territory and attempts to break outside the box in itself makes this a book worth reading.

This book deals more with the social and to a lesser extent political aspects of the world in its current state than the practice of the religion itself. A good bulk of this book is an indictment against Democracy, what a scam it is and how in the end it always leads to Tyranny from the wealthy elite due to the masses being a dumb herd that is easily manipulated. Lots of good comparisons of what your brainwashed into believing Democracy is and the reality of it. The Chapter on Americas so called founding Fathers does a good job of debunking a lot of the Mythology of the American Revolution and what the people behind its true motivations were. Also the sham of the concept that all humans are equal is talked about. I agree that the concept of all people being equal is a laughable joke but I also think everyone should be treated in a just and fair manner. I believe Wyatt himself once wrote that Odinic law is justice. The rulers should have to live up to their end of the bargain too. Actually they have even more of an obligation to do the right thing. In the days of old the Kings fought and died on the battlefield. You have to respect that even if some of them weren't just rulers. Now with democracy you have a bunch of coke bottle glasses wearing chicken necks that look like Alan Greenspan sending poor and working class people out to die in wars that work against their best interest to begin with.

Wyatts solution is what he calls an Odinic Theocracy, or Thingism. There never has and never will be a Utopia or perfect society but Thingism is probably a workable system. He does not believe it should be dogmatic or totalitarian. Being dogmatic or having the my way or the highway will only serve as an iron curtain that seperates us from our Gods. The Gods are our leaders not men. We aren't Christians that have to use Priests, Reverends or Ministers as a go between and if we had something along those lines it would only serve to seperate us further from them. In other words Wyatt is a lot more liberal than a lot of people (maybe including himself) would care to admit.

A lot of ink in Odinism in the Age of Man is also devoted to pointing out the hypocrisy of the left and their anti-Nazi obsession while at the same time they hide the oceans of blood they have on their hands via various Communist regimes in the name of enforcing their idea of equality and their Orwellian habit of labeling anything they disagree with as hate. One thing I wish he would have done is differentiate between between Communism and different types of Socialism. I am not a fan of the Globalist Fabian Socialism but I don't think all Socialism is bad. I like the pro-white working class version of Socialism promoted by Jack London (Call of the Wild is one of the most Odinic books ever written) and the Scandinavian version worked well for a long time and even though they are slowly dismantling it, it still works well compared to the rest of the world. So my point being all Socialism isn't necessarily Communism light like the moronic Tea Baggers who label putting any constraints on the big Capitalists as Socialism. And besides that isn't Tribalism, which more or less all Odinists promote, and even the family unit both forms of Socialism when you get down to it.

Wyatt also talks about the process of social engineering and how it sped up the decline of the west during his lifetime. In some ways he does idealize the so called good old days but doesn't overdo it either. He talks quite a bit about how the rich people and the oil companies screwed over the working class in the small oil town he grew up in.

There are some things I disagree with him on in this book. Wyatt to his credit includes some opposing viewpoints and debates between him and other Odinists in Age of Man though. For one on the socio-political front not that he doesn't have criticisms of both but overall I think he is way too easy on Christians and Jews. Also he sees Muslims as some sort of centralized power in league with the uber-Capitalists. I am around those people every day. Muslims are not centralizing anything. There is more internal conflict among Muslims than any other people or religion on Earth. They have differences in interpretations of Islam, differences in race, ethnicity, culture. These differences range from from ignoring and not associating with each other to out and out violence. Also even very wealthy Muslims who make it into Europe are not being allowed into the circles of power. While the white and Jewish elites seem to want to create a new lumpen proletariot in Europe via Muslim immigration the idea that these people are going to take over anything or take the reigns of power in the west is utterly laughable.

Also on the religion end of things I strongly disagree with his belief that the Vanir were only let into Asgard as thralls to the Æsir. I also strongly disagree with his views that the Gods of the Germanic pantheon should not be viewed in a Pan-Aryan way. What I mean is that many if not most of the Gods were worshipped by all the people in the Indo-European family even if they called them by other names. I have referred to myself as a Pan-Aryan Odinist for a long time. I mean seriously the one eyed spear carrying Celtic God Lugh and the God with the same attributes that the Romans said the Celts worshipped wasn't Odin? The Slavic and Baltic Perun/Perkunas or the Celtic Taranis both of whom toted Hammers, rode in the sky in chariots and were associated with thunder, lightning and Oak trees wasn't a manifestation of Thor? To me its silly to think otherwise. I believe some of the lesser Gods may have been more specific to different sections of the Indo-European family but the major ones manifested themselves to all Indo-European Heathens.

But anyway other things I really loved about this book was Wyatts explanation of Odinic conceptions of the cycles of time, life, death and rebirth. Also his concept of the movie Its a Wonderful Life as an Odinist allegory is brilliant stuff. At the end of the day this is the type of book that Odinists need to be reading and/or writing. Odinism should be treated as a living religion not a re-enactment group or an excuse to put on a Viking tunic and drink mead out of a drinking horn a few times a year. Stop treating our Gods like they are dead. They aren't. We may not have the true answer and be like dogs chasing their tail for a long time trying to figure it all out and there will be disagreements but we have to try. ...more

The purpose of this book is to show how Corporations sneakily got themselves the same legal rights as human beings, how they use and abuse this to theThe purpose of this book is to show how Corporations sneakily got themselves the same legal rights as human beings, how they use and abuse this to their advantage and the biggest "first step" to straighten this out is to deny the Corporats their right to personhood.

Most people do not know that Corporations have the right to lie and make false claims and are not criminally liable because since Corporations have legal personhood it is protected by their first amendment right to free speech. They also used fourth amendment rights to privacy to block health and safety inspections at their plants. These are just a few examples of how they have used the Bill of Rights in a very wormy treacherous way.

Overall Unequal Protection is very good left wing stuff but I have criticisms. For one he buys into a lot of the false mythology of the so called founding Fathers, the American revolution and the Boston tea party. He tries to frame the American revolution in a way that portrays it as the founding Fathers were anti-Capitalists battling the evil wicked East India Company. This is utterly laughable. While they may have had some admirable qualities overall the founding Fathers were rich Capitalist pig slave owning freemason scumbags whose main concern was money grubbing and stealing Indian land so they could turn it over and sell it to the white settlers. And lest I remind you of what they did once they got in power. Ever heard of the Whiskey Rebellion or Shays Rebellion? These are good examples of what happened to anybody outside the small circle of rich elites that tried to exercise any of that so called new found freedom that the founding fathers talked about.

Also Hartmann goes on about and praises Democracy a bit much for my taste. For one America was supposed to be a Republic not a Democracy. But instead of looking at it like Plato did and acknowledging that Democracy always erodes, gets twisted and perverted into the monstrosity that it is now Hartmann still worships Democracy like its some sort of holy unquestionable system. I mean seriously at this point Democracy is nothing but a code word for exploitive Capitalism and Globalist monoculture.

Criticisms aside, like I said this very good left wing stuff that I agree with most of his observations and many of his solutions. ...more

Among other things you get great stuff from Palast as he exposes the election fraud during the 2000 Presidential election that ultimately decided theAmong other things you get great stuff from Palast as he exposes the election fraud during the 2000 Presidential election that ultimately decided the outcome of the race, the attached strings that come with IMF "bailouts", Pat Robertsons hypocritical money making scams, the CIA/Kissinger/Corporate engineered coup in Chile, Wal-Mart using Chinese prison slave labor while at the same time promoting themselves as a squeaky clean all American entity, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and clean up, the horror of Wackenhut privatized prisons, Pfizer knowingly selling defective heart valves, etc. He also is like Michael Moore in that he does a good job at using humor in his journalistic work even while exposing some very nasty things.

Palast is Jewish and comes from the left so while you get good exposures of corporate shenanigans you also have to put up with the typical hypocritical anti-white snipes that comes from that demographic. Like at one point Palast mocks a cab driver that is worried about too many immigrants coming into England and says he wants to preserve his English culture and heritage. Palast then equates English culture with drunken football hoologanism and says that the English should be begging to add new material to their gene pool! So for all the good work he has done Palast can't seem to shake the Jewish leftist tendency to hate working class whites. If it wasn't for that I may have given this book five stars....more

The Holocaust Industry exposes the reparations scam where Billionaire Jews and The World Jewish Congress basicly publicly blackmailed the Swiss and GeThe Holocaust Industry exposes the reparations scam where Billionaire Jews and The World Jewish Congress basicly publicly blackmailed the Swiss and Germans in the name of helping Jews who were allegedly victimized during WW2 and pocketed the Lions share of the shake down for themselves. It also makes the point that what went on in concentration camps during WW2 was never politicized or used as propaganda until the late 60s at the earliest. Simon Weisenthal is also shown to be a fraudster to the point where some of his claims are actually laughable. You can't really find much in the way of flaws with this book. One thing that I think people need to take home with this book is that the "elite" Jews could care less about about the masses of Jews and use and discard them like pawns in a game of Chess. I wish the masses of Jews would wake up to this fact and stop defending their exploiters and calling anybody that points out their evil as an "anti-Semite". I mean just because somebody thinks George Bush is a scumbag I don't start shreiking and accusing them of hating all white people....more

On the Trail of the Assassins is Garrisons beginning to end recollection of his investigation of the JFK assassination. Garrison deserves a lot of creOn the Trail of the Assassins is Garrisons beginning to end recollection of his investigation of the JFK assassination. Garrison deserves a lot of credit for uncovering as much as he did but as far as his final conclusion I think its too simple to say it was just a bunch of ring wingers and anti-communists within the CIA that had Kennedy iced and the buck stops there. The one guy who he had charges brought against may very well have been involved but to try to put him at the top of the conspiracies food chain doesn't quite add up either. Besides that going in Garrison should have known that he wasn't going to get a conviction. At this point the water is so muddied I don't think the truth will ever be known but if your researching the Kennedy assassination you more or less have to read Garrisons book. ...more

Most of this is a chapter by chapter case by case analysis of various individuals alleged to have ties to terrorist groups who were snatched up by theMost of this is a chapter by chapter case by case analysis of various individuals alleged to have ties to terrorist groups who were snatched up by the CIA, taken to countries where there are no laws against torturing people and basicly tortured by outsourcing. As if this wasn't bad enough the ties any of these people had to terrorism were very dubious at best. I have to commend Greys investigative journalism in putting this book together. The book itself wasn't overly exciting or interesting to read for me but thats probably because I was already familiar with most of the subject matter covered in this book. Still its a worthwhile read. ...more

A lot of what Graves theorized in The White Goddess has been disproven since. Here and there I ran across stuff I can agree with or think hey maybe heA lot of what Graves theorized in The White Goddess has been disproven since. Here and there I ran across stuff I can agree with or think hey maybe he is on to something but overall I don't jibe well with much in the White Goddess. The biggest thing is he tries to draw all these parallels and relations between Indo-European and Hebraic stuff. Its possible Graves was a well meaning (but wrong) guy but I think its just as likely he was intentionally putting out nonsense to muddy the water. Its hard for me not to think this considering the Kabballistic/Masonic/Occult secret societies with connections to the aristocracy that he was involved with and all the new age and Wiccan garbage that was heavily influenced by his work. ...more

What you have here is Aldous Huxley describing his experiments with Mescaline and musing on psychedelics. Maybe its his background (he came from a higWhat you have here is Aldous Huxley describing his experiments with Mescaline and musing on psychedelics. Maybe its his background (he came from a high level British aristocratic family) but he just comes off in such a cold detached way in his thoughts on psychedelics being an enhancement of ones spiritual life. Not that I don't believe psychedelics can't be a spiritual enhancer or give one a deep glance into ones self or into other worlds but Huxley just does it in such a sterile heartless way I didn't get much out of this book. I loved Brave New World but this is a very overrated book....more

Farenheit 451 is a dystopian novel where a Firemans job is not to put out fires but to burst into peoples homes like cops on a drug raid , find theirFarenheit 451 is a dystopian novel where a Firemans job is not to put out fires but to burst into peoples homes like cops on a drug raid , find their books and then burn them. I thought this was a good book but not on the level of some of my favorite dystopian novels like 1984, Brave New World, Camp of the Saints, The Iron Heel,or even some of HG Wells or Phillip K. Dicks work for their predictive see I told you so qualities. ...more

You can't fault Brysons research in The Fluoride Deception. Its hard not to say that their are more dangers in putting Fluoride in the water than beneYou can't fault Brysons research in The Fluoride Deception. Its hard not to say that their are more dangers in putting Fluoride in the water than benefits if you look at the facts. The benefits to dental health are debatable but a lot of the damage it can cause in other areas is hard to debate. In an open honest forum where all the facts are presented I don't see how any government could justify putting this substance in the water. I feel lucky that I now live in a place that does not put Fluoride in the water. ...more

This is a compilation of public statements, communications and rhetoric put out by the SLA. It would be helpful if your researching the SLA as far asThis is a compilation of public statements, communications and rhetoric put out by the SLA. It would be helpful if your researching the SLA as far as how they represented themselves but not so good for learning about their actual story. In their communications the SLA came off as cartoon caricatures of 60s radicals. A lot of people on the radical left back then thought of them as government controlled agent provocateurs. Most all of the known radicals disavowed and condemned them. I would even go a step further than that and say they were probably a full blown CIA mind control operation and I didn't always feel this way. I actually did a paper on the SLA for a research writing class when I was at University and didn't believe that at the time. However the more I learn about the world the uglier reality tends to get....more

You could call this a reference book for psychoactive plants but its awful fun and interesting to read compared to most of the dry reference books ofYou could call this a reference book for psychoactive plants but its awful fun and interesting to read compared to most of the dry reference books of all sorts I've read. Plants of the Gods is also full of nice illustrations and photographs. Schultes deserves a lot of credit for doing the leg work going into the Amazon back in the 1940s and collecting and learning about the uses of these plants long before the days of Ayahuasca tourism....more

Most of this is a collection of case studies of various former boxers. A typical example is something along the lines of fighter A had 32 amateur fighMost of this is a collection of case studies of various former boxers. A typical example is something along the lines of fighter A had 32 amateur fights, 21 pro fights and reported being knocked out in three fights. The subject who is now 55 years old has slurred speech and a slight tremor in left hand, etc, etc. It was published in 1969 so for its time it was probably very good but in the here and now its outdated other than showing that there are a lot of older fighters that end up having neurological problems. The knowledge of the brain has grown by leaps and bounds as well as the technology with their ability to do brainscans. Although there are plenty of fighters that pass a cat scan test who obviously have something wrong with them....more

Well apparently wars in the future will be fought by detached from reality sociopathic nerds with videogame joysticks. Military people "in the know" tWell apparently wars in the future will be fought by detached from reality sociopathic nerds with videogame joysticks. Military people "in the know" that were interviewed see the writing on the wall and acknowledge that the role of the soldier will be hugely different in the not so distant future. Drones will make the fighter pilot obsolete. Robotics will eventually make the common foot soldier obsolete. The future military could easily be pencil neck geeks thousands of miles from the action controlling drones and robots like they are playing a videogame. They are already doing this but it hasn't been perfected to the point where they can phase out manned jet fighters or the common infantry soldier.

The most interesting thing in Wired for War may be when he goes into how science fiction has influenced the development of military technology. He takes the position that science fiction inspired scientists into making these things reality. This may be true in some cases but I also lean toward a lot of science fiction being what is known as predictive programming where the world controllers use science fiction to psychologicly condition the masses into accepting certain things and conditions. Its undeniable that they sociologicly and politically (just read H.G Wells Open Conspiracy, Huxleys Brave New World or Orwells 1984) so why not with technology too....more

The bulk of this book is information on wild plants (not to be confused with cultivated vegtables) that constitute a good portion of the people of CreThe bulk of this book is information on wild plants (not to be confused with cultivated vegtables) that constitute a good portion of the people of Cretes diet but there is also information on the wild plants that are a staple of the diets of people in parts of India, Thailand, North Africa and a few other places. It analyzes the nutrient content and effects on the health of the populations of these places. Apparently the effect is quite good considering the people of Crete, along with the Japanese have the worlds longest expected life spans. There are also medicinal uses for many of these plants.

All these plants are named and pictured although I don't know how difficult it would be to get a hold of what you would need to grow them yourself. I also don't know how good some of these would taste in a salad but in these days of geneticly modified foods and Monsanto I think they should be given a look at. many of them are as rich or more so in vitamins and micronutrients as the most common cultivated vegtables. The potential for these wild plants to be used in places where people are nutrient deficient is also discussed. Its written by and for academics but its not dry if you have an interest in the subject matter....more

Alinsky was the left side of a two headed system approved Jewish Hydra operation out of Chicago. On one side you had Strausser who spawned the Neo-ConAlinsky was the left side of a two headed system approved Jewish Hydra operation out of Chicago. On one side you had Strausser who spawned the Neo-Con cabal that ruled the white house from 2000-2008. On the other side you had Alinsky who either influenced or in some cases out and out mentored people like Hilary Clinton, Cesar Chavez, Barry Satoro Obama, Bill Ayers, etc, etc. So their little globalist Marxist operation was quite succesful no doubt.

Alinsky for all his notoriety for rabblerousing really pushed the idea that "radicals" should infiltrate the system and then take it over. He also pushes the idea of ridiculing and mocking your enemies. This is one thing the left has over the right big time. They have found a way to present themselves as being hip, cool and funny as well as presenting their opponents as stiff and unfashionable. Alinsky really isn't that funny compared to say, Jon Stewart, but he gets off a few good ones here and there. Such as when he says "If you look at television commercials you get the picture that American society is largely dedicated to ensuring that no odors come from our mouths or armpits." He also talks about problems that tend to pop up in political operatives that he traineds personal lives. From maritial and family problems to developing neurotic worrying tendencies. His solution was to drive home the point that 9 times out 10 whatever it is you worry about the most never happens and to have fun at what your doing.

Some of the tactics in this book are outdated but I think most are still effective today. You wouldn't even have to be a little Marxist globalist lowlife like Alinsky was to use them either. As big of a group of controlled opposition idiots as they are the tea baggers have incorporated some of Alinskys methods. Even George Lincoln Rockwell did things that seemingly were pulled from Alinskys playbook....more

Fritz the Cat was some of Crumbs most famous work but not his best. There is good satire/parody of the so called counterculture but most of it is CrumFritz the Cat was some of Crumbs most famous work but not his best. There is good satire/parody of the so called counterculture but most of it is Crumb projecting his self onto Fritz. Fritz fluctuates between whining and feeling sorry for himself because he's such a misunderstood artistic type but when he gets in situations where he has the upper hand he's a misanthropic jerk to everybody around him. Although it was universally hated, especially by Crumb himself, I actually liked the Fritz the Cat movie better than the comic....more